UQDI Seminar Series
Personalising our understanding and treatment of complex psychiatric disorders
Professor Murray Cairns
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, the University of Newcastle
Professor Murray Cairns is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. He heads the Neurobehavioural Genomics Laboratory at the University of Newcastle’s, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy. After completing his PhD at the University of NSW, he was and industry postdoctoral fellow at Johnson and Johnson Research. With the support of the Schizophrenia Research Institute, Murray then established a laboratory at Newcastle. His current research is focusing on the molecular dynamics of systems dysregulated in complex psychiatric disorders. This exploration, facilitated by high-throughput functional genomics and systems biology, is seeking new insight into the network architecture of these disorders with respect to diagnostic status or their related phenotypes. The research is also developing integrated approaches to identify disease-associated gene networks, at the individual level, that can serve as functionally significant biomarkers with clinical utility in precision medicine.
